What does dog me out mean?
dog out. 1. slang To subject someone to severe mistreatment or abuse. A noun or pronoun can be used between “dog” and “out.” Turns out he’d been dogging me out for more than a year—cheating on me, stealing from me, and then making me think I was crazy for ever suspecting him.
What does it mean when someone wants to dog you?
1. verb To judge or criticize someone for something.
What does it mean for someone to dog you?
An African American expression meaning: 1. To be unfaithful. 2. To follow someone around.
What does it mean to dog a girl?
Then to dog someone out is to tell on someone, or to expose someone.
What does it mean when a guy calls you dog?
If someone calls a woman or girl a dog, they mean that she is unattractive. [informal, offensive, disapproval]
#2 doesn’t really make sense. The word “curb” has no definition that means to pick up after something, although it can indirectly imply cleaning up after the misbehavior of your own dog. (i.e., Since dogs cannot control themselves, you need to control the aftermath for them.) It’s too vague. You should just say, “Pick up after your dog.”
This is my theory of how the expression was originally introduced and evolved to include all three definitions. What do you think?
What is confusing is the word “curb” itself. It can mean “control” or “edge of street” which are two completely different definitions, and I would assume that they came from completely unrelated etymological roots. The expression is so vague and confusing that it is ineffective.
#3 is problematic for two reasons. Firstly, “curb” in this context should be used as a noun. I seriously doubt that “take your dog to the curb” was what was meant when the signs first started appearing in public. If you are the first person ever to create this sign, and if you meant to say, “take your dog to the curb”, then you would not write “Curb your dog.” You could not expect other people to understand what you meant by that, as there was no such use of the word “curb” in a verb form. You would have written: “Take your dog to the curb.” My second problem with #3 is that it implies it’s fine to leave the poo as long as you take the dog to the curb.
I always understood it to mean #2, so even when I saw a sign that said “Curb your dog,” I would let my dog poo there but I picked it up afterward. I figured the person who put the sign there would be satisfied with that. But if #3 is what is meant by the sign, s/he would not be happy.